Sources: money

This is an essay I found both startlingly unfamiliar and startlingly obvious. I had read pieces on economics and currency that point in the same direction but had never found one that helped clarify the mechanics and implications as well. A perspective shift that changes how one understands almost everything relating to the political discourse around ecomonics and how to interpret policy.

Great overview of his book Debt: the First 5000 Years. Very unusual talk in its informality, almost as if he was asked at a party what he was working on. In consequence it is a bit like watching someone with enormous intellectual resources, and great humility, work through an idea — probably due to this being hosted by Google Talks rather than an academic institution.